Tyson Fury has a date and an opponent for his latest comeback.<\/p>\n
Netflix announced Wednesday that Fury (34-2-1) is set to fight Arslanbek Makhmudov (21-2) in a heavyweight bout that will air live on the streaming service on April 11 in the U.K. The exact location and venue are yet to be revealed.<\/p>\n
Fury retired from boxing in January 2025 following a second consecutive championship fight loss to rival Oleksandr Usyk. It was the fifth-such time Fury has hung up the gloves, leading to much skepticism around whether the 37-year-old was truly done fighting, especially with a highly anticipated bout with fellow British star Anthony Joshua still looming.<\/p>\n
Sure enough, earlier this January, Fury announced his plans for a comeback and began regularly posting training videos and clips discussing his intentions to reach the top of the sport again. Fury is a former unified world champion and has captured belts across the various major organizations on multiple occasions. He seeks his first win since a narrow victory over former UFC star Francis Ngannou in October 2023.<\/p>\n
For now, the Joshua fight is once again on hold with Joshua currently dealing with a personal tragedy. In December, Joshua was involved in a car accident in Nigeria that resulted in the death of close friends and coaches Latif Ayodele and Sina Ghami.<\/p>\n
Makhmudov has won his past two fights, and three of his past four, most recently defeating David Allen to capture a WBA Inter-Continental heavyweight title. The 36-year-old had aspirations to fight Joshua himself, but instead matches up with another legend of this era, Fury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury has a date and an opponent for his latest comeback. Netflix announced Wednesday that Fury (34-2-1)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,1347,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-443269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-boxing-news","12":"tag-latest-news","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}